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| User: | fantasywithbite (4421492)
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| Name: | Fantasy fiction that's out of the ordinary |
| About: | This is a group for the discussion of the kind of fantasy fiction that tends to get ignored on most fantasy forums and communities. Fantasy that’s off the beaten track to some extent. We won’t be discussing Tolkien, and we won’t be discussing commercial doorstopper fantasy like The Wheel of Time, or Dungeons & Dragons tie-in books. We will discuss just about every other variety of fantasy literature (and occasionally films) that you can think of. Fantasy authors like Tim Powers, China Miéville, Tanith Lee, Guy Gavriel Kay, Mary Gentle, etc, plus magic realism, slipstream, weird fiction, the New Weird, even gothic and surrealism. Books that blur the boundaries between fantasy and science fiction and between fantasy and other genres will also be subjects for discussion.
Tolkien is off-topic here. This does not imply a value judgment on Tolkienesque fantasy or the people who read it – it’s just not the stuff we discuss here, and there are countless other communities where Tolkien can be discussed. Please help to keep fantasywithbite a hobbit-free zone!
I didn’t want just another fantasy fiction community – I wanted to do something different.
The best guide to what’s on-topic is the list of authors you’ll find in the “interests” list.
Rules
Any posts that appear to be by members promoting their own books (or movies, or whatever) will be deleted, and persistent offenders will be banned. This is not a writers' workshop or a place to promote your own work.
On the other hand I have no problems with promotion of other communities as long as they’re reasonably relevant.
There's only one real rule here - no political discussions of any kind. Politics has killed too many online groups.
This community is maintained by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) dfordoom.
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| Interests: | 150: abraham merritt, alan moore, alchemy, algernon blackwood, angela carter, archetypes, arthur machen, barbara hambly, barry hughart, book communities, book discussion, book lists, books, bram stoker, brian aldiss, brian stableford, c. l. moore, cabbala, celtic myth, charles de lint, china miéville, clark ashton smith, clive barker, dark fantasy, e. r. eddison, edgar allan poe, edward whittemore, elizabeth hand, emma bull, epic fantasy, fairy tales, fantasy, fantasy fiction, fantasy literature, fantasy novels, fritz leiber, g k chesterton, gabriel garcia marquez, garth ennis, garth nix, gene wolfe, geoff ryman, george macdonald, george r. r. martin, gothic, graphic novels, greek myth, gregory maguire, guy gavriel kay, harlan ellison, haruki murakami, henry treece, hermeticism, hiyao miyazaki, hope mirrlees, howard waldrop, huysmans, ian macleod, j. g. ballard, j. gregory keyes, jack vance, james blaylock, james branch cabell, jane yolen, jean-pierre jeunet, jeff noon, jeff vandermeer, jeffrey ford, jirel of joiry, jo walton, joan vinge, john crowley, john fowles, john m. ford, jorge luis borges, joyce carol oates, k. j. bishop, kathe koja, keith roberts, kelly link, kij johnson, kim newman, king arthur, kurt vonnegut, lewis carroll, lewis shiner, lisa goldstein, lord dunsany, lovecraft, lucius shepard, m. john harrison, magic, magic realism, martin millar, mary gentle, megan lindholm, merlin, mervyn peake, michael moorcock, michael swanwick, mythology, nalo hopkinson, nancy collins, neil gaiman, new weird, norse sagas, occult, orson scott card, oscar wilde, patricia mckillip, patrick suskind, paul auster, paul di filippo, paula volsky, peter s. beagle, philip pullman, poul anderson, ray bradbury, richard matheson, rikki ducornet, robert e. howard, robert holdstock, robert louis stevenson, robert w. chambers, roger zelazny, russell hoban, sheridan le fanu, slipstream, speculative fiction, steampunk, stephen donaldson, steven brust, storm constantine, surrealism, sword & sorcery, sword and sorcery, symbolism, tad williams, tanith lee, terry gilliam, theophile gautier, tim burton, tim powers, umberto eco, urban fantasy, ursula le guin, weird fiction, weird tales, william beckford, william morris |
| Maintainers: | 1: dfordoom |
| Members: | 656: View Members. |
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| Account type: | Basic Account |
